The original message had no HTML part. You probably have a copy of it, it was Dave Doherty's message to this list dated "Wed, 22 Mar 2006 15:49:42 -0500" with a subject line of "Re: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: port forwarding". SmarterMail's web mail interpreted the META tag Dave illustrated in his message as HTML.
-------- Original Message -------- > From: "Kevin Bilbee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 1:36 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: port forwarding > > This is a bug SmarterMail they need to do the replacements when displaying a > plaintext email. Or switch the view automatically if there is only a > plaintext portion of the email. > > Does the origional email have a plaintext and html portion??? > > > If it does and the HTML portion is blank then they are doing what many > clients would do. Default to the HTML view. They also may be using poor > judgment and assuming that no one would ever discuss HTML tags in a plain > text email and not parsing them. > > > > Kevin Bilbee > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gary Steiner > > Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 8:47 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: port forwarding > > > > > > I can't get SmarterTools to see this as a bug. Their answer is > > that their web mail is set to HTML by default, and you should > > just click on the "plain text" link to view it. Their support > > doesn't seem to be able to grasp the wider implications of this problem. > > > > Gary > > > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > > > From: Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 6:31 PM > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: port forwarding > > > > > > That's surely a bug. Dave sent his message as plain/text and > > > SmarterMail should be replacing the brackets with HTML encoding before > > > displaying it as HTML so that it should not be a functional > > element when > > > displayed., i.e. > > > > > > <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="5; > > > URL=http://www.mydomain.com"> > > > > > > If Dave had sent it as an HTML message, his client would have done the > > > replacement for him. > > > > > > This should probably be reported to SmarterMail. There are a lot of > > > potential consequences, for instance, virus scanners won't generally > > > consider code in plain/text segments to be executable, yet it can be in > > > SmarterMail webmail if it is working the way that you reported. > > > > > > Matt > > > > > > > > > > > > Gary Steiner wrote: > > > > > > >It is interesting how SmarterMail's web mail interprets Dave's > > message. It sees the META statement in his message as embedded > > code, and runs it when I read the message. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
